infinite blood sorrow

Speaking of which, the samurai took out a ball of light from nowhere, and that sphere of light turned into several streaks of light blue smoke in the warrior's hands, which spontaneously penetrated into Casillas' facial features.

"Ugh...ah! Ahhh!!" As if suffering unspeakable pain, Casillas, who had been tortured to death by the warrior, struggled violently like a fish just out of water, his eyes Turning white, foaming at the mouth.

Immediately, I saw that the samurai was talking softly as if he was talking to the air, and he didn't know what he was talking about.

After a while, the samurai turned around unsteadily, relaxed all over, even a layman could tell that he was completely out of combat, as if he had lost all vigilance.

"..." The samurai didn't look at Casillas, who was completely still. His eyes glanced at the female mage whose tongue had been cut off, ignoring her terrified and begging eyes, very casually. He took out a knife and slashed his chest.

It was really an extremely random knife, it didn't even hit any vitals, it just caused a huge knife wound enough to kill.Such an injury cannot kill her in one blow, and she is destined to die slowly.

"It saves a lot of trouble."

With a sigh, the samurai staggered out of the church.

Chapter 95 Cancer in the World

The mid-term exam is over, resume updating.

that's all.

"Have you finished your morning class today?" Mo Ao held Happy Water in one hand and NS in the other, looking at Strange in front of him in surprise.

After a pause for a second, Mo Ao silently put away the NS in his hand, then swallowed the happy water in one gulp, pretending to be serious.

"Morning class?" Strange was stunned for a second, then took a step back and went out to look up. The sun was shining brightly, and it was clearly noon.

"Aren't you coming to me a little too often recently? Aren't you laying the groundwork with Mage Ancient One?" Mo Ao sat on the sofa very naturally, and said to Strange across the coffee table.

"What you said was two days ago. I have already read all the books arranged by the master. Even if I am working hard, I still have private time." Strange sat opposite Mo Ao.

"So what's the matter with Doctor Wonder coming to me in private time?"

"Uh... About this, I want to ask about the alchemy you mentioned last time..." Strange said after considering his words.

"Actually, you don't need to be so tactful. You are interested in human body alchemy, right?" Mo Ao tilted his head, and casually exposed Strange.

"..." Strange was choked for a while and was speechless, thinking that it was obviously you who were the first to be tactful.

"After all... As you know, I came here hoping to find a cure for my hands, but the master told me that I can only rely on my own strength to find it..." Strange will He stretched out his hand and hung it above the coffee table, showing it in front of himself and Mo Ao.

The hands that were woven with the healing marks of old scars and surgically treated wounds trembled constantly just by keeping them in the air, and it was very strenuous to even move their fingers.No surgery could be performed on such hands, which would be tantamount to obliterating Strange's career and ideals in the first half of his life.

"But I've almost finished reading the books here, and I still haven't found a cure for my hands." Strange looked at his hands in confusion.

"Hmm..." Mo Ao stared at Strange's expression for a while, and said, "Master Gu Yi couldn't have noticed that you look like this. Didn't she say anything to you about it?"

"She told me to find the answers myself."

"Okay, it's like something she would say." Mo Ao shrugged helplessly. To be honest, he also wanted to say something to Strange [you should find the answer yourself].However, if Gu Yi said the same thing, it would be inscrutable, but if he said it, it would be perfunctory and lazy.

"Since I promised Gu Yi to be in charge of answering some of your questions, then it's not impossible for you to learn." Mo Ao said while propping his head on the tea table with his elbows forward. "Let me see, where do I start?"

The index finger of the hand propped on the chin lightly tapped his side face, Mo Ao didn't think for long, and then said: "Since you are not interested in the orthodox material alchemy, then I won't go into details about this part, directly Jump to the human body you are interested in and practice it."

"Before I start the lecture, I have a question for you—how do you see the world?"

"?" Strange was stunned for a moment, he was thrown into disarray by Mo Ao's sudden appearance, and asked tentatively. "Isn't it supposed to be, what kind of [open your eyes] is it?"

"Hehehe, of course not." Mo Ao was amused by Strange's face as if he was facing an enemy. He thought that he was beaten out of his soul by the ancient one to experience the mystery of magic for the first time, and his prestige still remained. Although that experience was mysterious, but Not very friendly to the parties.If you want to come for the second time, Strange is still grateful.

"The so-called alchemy is actually physical chemistry in a small way; in a big way, it is to explore the truth of the world. So what is the so-called [world]? You have to know what you are studying."

"Is this topic too...too broad." Strange frowned and made his own small protest. The slogan of exploring the truth has been shouted too much, but in fact, human beings are far away. Not to this level, he came to Mo Ao to learn more, hoping to be more down-to-earth.

He was a little suspicious that Mo Ao wanted to use the content of the university's comprehensive quality lectures to deal with him.

"Well, there is nothing wrong with what you said." Mo Ao agreed with Strange's statement and explained. "If we are talking about alchemy to build roads and houses, rub food to make water and other things, then this topic is indeed far away from us."

Having said that, Mo Ao changed the subject and became serious.

"But if it involves the cultivation of the human body, then this problem has changed from a philosophical thought far away from actual daydreaming to a problem that has to be faced."

After setting up the atmosphere and brewing enough emotions, Mo Ao said to Strange in a stern warning tone.

"[The world] has [consciousness]!"

Strange frowned, as if he had comprehended something, and tried hard to grasp it, but it didn't quite work out, as if there was a thick layer of fog in front of him.

And Mo Ao didn't expect any decent reaction from Strange. After all, he is not Doctor Strange yet, but Doctor Fantastic who has just been washed.

"You're a doctor, so I'll give you an example that's easy for you to understand." Seeing that Strange was indeed listening carefully, Mo Ao continued to explain patiently.

"We all know that the vital functions of the human body are derived from the operation of various organs and circulatory systems in the human body. We assume that all the cells in the human body have life. They live and die, but they run according to the fixed rules and cycles. , metabolism, well organized."

"And you." Mo Ao suddenly pointed at Strange's very pointed nose and said. "The owner of this body is usually not aware of how your body works and how each organ works. You are just living a normal life. You are a conscious and intelligent individual, but as long as you are free from disease If there is no disaster, then for most of the time, you completely ignore the world inside your body, maybe a day, maybe a month, for cells, this is generations."

"You mean... the world itself is a living body, it has intelligence and its own thinking. And we... are the cells that make up this world?"

"Er...you understand the meaning is correct, but what I conveyed is a little bit different." Mo Ao corrected after a moment of consideration. "First of all, He cannot be said to be a living body, but the world itself does have wisdom and intelligence."

"Besides, there is one thing that is slightly different from what you understand." Mo Ao stretched out a finger, and smiled inscrutablely. "The consciousness of this world is not one, but five!"

"Of course!" Mo Ao suddenly opened his hand with only one finger up, and waved it outward, sweeping away the mysterious and strange atmosphere before.Mo Ao himself said very much to disrupt the atmosphere. "Although this part of the content has something to do with the body training you are interested in, it has little to do with it, so we won't discuss it in depth today. If you are interested, you can ask me in the next class."

"Let's go back to the previous topic of the human body and cells."

"If a person is free from disease and disaster, and the cells make up organs and systems, and operate normally according to fixed rules and cycles, it is difficult for the human body itself to notice how its own body is doing."

"But if all of a sudden, there are a bunch of cells, they break the original rules and cycles, split wantonly and run around, messing up a certain part of the body, or the system of the whole body. In this way, the master of the human body It is impossible not to notice such an abnormality. Speaking of which, you should be familiar with this symptom, right?"

"..." Strange is very smart, he quickly absorbed the metonym used by Mo Ao, so he was able to keep up with the topic at this time. "Are you talking about cells becoming cancerous?"

"That's right, it's cancerous." Mo Ao laughed again, as if he was satisfied with Strange's understanding.

But Strange still doesn't know what Mo Ao wants to express so far, and the "five consciousnesses about the world" that he had just aroused interest in was cut off by Mo Ao on his own initiative.

In Strange's ignorant state, Mo Ao continued.

"Then, since the human body can become cancerous, if we compare it to the entire universe, will there be similar phenomena?"

"The human body is tempered, that is the phenomenon."

Chapter 96 The Balance of Mind

"What you want to learn, the alchemy that can heal the human body, actually has a separate branch called alchemy."

"Alchemy is a new technology that spreads and spreads under the influence of local culture after alchemy was introduced to China. If the purpose of alchemy is to seek truth without restraint, then the reason for the birth of alchemy is incomparable simplicity and clarity—in pursuit of eternal life."

"The pursuit of longevity is the common pursuit of human beings all over the world. However, in ancient China, this desire was highly amplified in a specific cultural environment. People's pursuit of eternal life was summarized into two categories-immortality, and death. And come back to life."

"So in such an environment, alchemy, which can be applied to human medicine, is not made by the human body but infinitely close to the alchemy made by the human body."

"Is this alchemy..." Strange became excited.

"Unfortunately, although alchemy can indeed be used to treat the human body, and even to a certain extent, it can do things that modern medicine can't do, but in fact, alchemy is very simple to treat human wounds. What is missing? A piece of meat may be easy to handle, but if you expect alchemy to perform meticulous joint repairs that have been comminuted and healed under surgery, then you may be disappointed."

"Why not?!" Strange asked eagerly.

"Because an alchemist is not a doctor." Mo Ao replied helplessly. "The vast majority of alchemists, even researchers who specialize in human body refining, usually only understand the formulaic human body knowledge at most. They are all addicted to their own field of knowledge and don't have so much time to learn things outside the field. .So they don’t know how to fix a pair of hands, and if they don’t know, they can’t do it.”

"Those alchemists can at most cut off your current hands, and then connect a pair of new hands that are not yours but exist in their minds. I don't think you will accept such a thing."

"Then it's okay if I come to learn!?" Strange blurted out excitedly.

"I'll learn that alchemy technique, and then I'll heal myself!"

An alchemist is not a doctor, but he is!There is only one doctor in the world who can operate on Strange's hands and cure him. Unfortunately, that doctor is Strange himself.

During that period of self-degradation, he had simulated countless times in his mind how to treat his hands, and he even wrote the treatment plan himself, but no doctor dared to do the surgery for him.Everyone thought his injury was hopeless, and he couldn't operate on himself.

So as long as he learns the alchemy technique by himself, as long as he learns the spell, he can use his own hands!

"Don't get excited." Mo Ao pressed his palms to signal Strange to sit down again. "Actually, I don't recommend you to learn alchemy."

Hearing that Strange couldn't accept it at all, he was saved emotionally for a while, but Mo Ao had expected this a long time ago, and directly stretched out his hand to press him on his shoulder and put him on the seat.

"I've said it all, don't get excited, listen to me first."

"I don't recommend you, or I don't recommend that all foreigners learn alchemy. Of course, this is not because of any national prejudice or I want to hide something. Unlike orthodox alchemy, alchemy has very obvious regional cultural elements , it involves a lot of abstract artistic conceptions in ancient China, and for people who have not lived in a specific cultural environment since childhood, there are countless unimaginable logical blind spots."

"At the same time, alchemy is a very dangerous technology. As I said, it is infinitely close to human body refining. In other words, people who learn alchemy will step into the taboo field of human body refining if they are not careful. For For people who can't even understand professional terms, this danger is magnified countless times."

"...If you put it this way, the human body that is similar to alchemy can also heal my hands, right?" Strange gritted his teeth and thought about it for more than a minute, watching Mo Ao said.

"Didn't Gu Yi tell you? Or maybe I didn't say it clearly enough?" This time it was Mo Ao's turn to be dazed, and he frowned at Strange. "Don't, hit, pay attention to the human body."

"As I said just now, this world has its own consciousness. When you try to break the rules, it means that you will be paid attention to by the world's consciousness. Maybe it doesn't know who you are, or maybe it doesn't care what you want to do. .When you break the rules, you become the one against them, and the omnipotent will punish you."

"What punishment?" Strange asked.

"For those who try to challenge the truth with self-importance, the truth will give them corresponding despair. Those who long for warmth will take away the body, those who long for family affection will take away family affection, and those who long for dreams will take away dreams. These taboos and the taboos in the process of learning spells Mostly the same, didn't Gu Yi teach you?"

"Sounds like a sale, give some and get some."

"Never, don't try to cheat on this!" Mo Ao warned with a frown. "The punishment that the truth brings varies from person to person, but no matter what he takes away, it must point to your despair."

"And in this process, you have no right to refuse Strange. Don't be self-righteous in this regard. What the truth takes away is not limited to objects in the actual sense. When you choose in your heart Think of the two most important things and compare them, and when you choose one to give up, the one that was given up is no longer the most important.”

"And the truth will inevitably take the other!"

"..." Strange pursed his lips, he seemed to have listened to Mo Ao's warning, or was frightened by Mo Ao's aggressive appearance, at least he finally put away his initial words. Hear the excitement of what hands can heal and start thinking rationally.

Strange carefully observed Mo Ao's expression, and felt that he seemed to be mad at himself. It seems that it is better not to mention the matter of human body training for a short time.

"If I can study ancient Chinese culture to a certain level, can you teach me alchemy?" After finally finding a way, Strange certainly couldn't just give up. Even if Mo Ao didn't like him, he would Do your best to try.

"If you can learn and understand... yes."

"I went to the library to read." Strange stood up without saying a word, and decided to learn about ancient Chinese culture.

Mo Ao didn't stop him, just watched Strange leave.

"Phew! I'm exhausted." After a while, it seemed that Strange would not turn his back on the horse. Mo Ao finally heaved a long sigh, and his whole body changed from a preacher to a salted fish.

Obviously, the question about Strange's hands healing was a lie. He is the only one who knows alchemy in this world. Do you want to say that Mo Ao, the only alchemist, can't heal Strange's arms?Isn't this bullshit?

But now Mo Ao can't help him heal his hands. Now that he heals his hands, he will always be Doctor Fantastic, and will never become Doctor Strange again.

Maybe I can help him heal his hands in the future, but for now, let's keep it a secret for now.

However, Mo Ao didn't make any alarmist remarks about the part of human body refining.

"Those who have always thought that they can trade fairly with the truth, in the end, don't even know what was taken away..."

Chapter 97 The Eye of Agamotto

After being rejected by Mo Ao's request to learn alchemy, Strange started spending time in the library every day, as if he had returned to his university life after more than ten years.

But now what he is studying is no longer the basic courses of mages such as the origin of the universe and the principles of nature, but about ancient Chinese culture.Fortunately, the School of Masters also has branches in China, and some knowledge and profound knowledge are similar to each other.

For example, the knowledge of meridians is actually similar to chakras and yoga. Strange himself has a good foundation, and he is not slow to learn.

At the same time, he didn't miss the homework given to him by Gu Yi. Ever since he was thrown by Gu Yi to Mount Everest and opened the portal of the Suspension Ring by himself - using the first spell in his life, the last blockade left in his mind It was also opened, and he absorbed the knowledge of the mage's way at an astonishing speed, and read all the books he was interested in in the ancient one's collection in a very short time.

He even began to use magic to steal books from the administrator Wang's eyelids to read.

So within a few days, Strange smashed a stack of books half a person's height in front of Mo Ao, took a short breath, and said with a vigorous smile, "I've learned everything, you can teach me now." ?”

Mo Ao didn't speak, he raised his eyebrows, leaned forward, and looked at the book that Strange brought over.

Chakras, yoga, witchcraft...well, Mo Ao had expected that Strange would see these things.

Numerology, acupuncture, Feng Shui... huh?Very hard work!

Mo Ao glanced briefly at the books Strange had read, and felt a little surprised. Although he expected that Strange would work hard, hard work is one thing, but the direction of learning is another.For a foreigner, if he thinks of looking at Feng Shui and mathematics to learn ancient Chinese culture, he really has an ulterior motive in thinking about what he should learn.

I have to say that if Strange really reads the things in these books, then it is not impossible to learn alchemy. With his medical knowledge, the success rate of healing his hands after learning alchemy is not low. .

A savvy student really pleases the teacher!Now Mo Ao seems to have no choice but to teach him.

Damn it, why didn't that [-]-year-old boy surnamed Ka come over and attack him? Strange is really going to go back to be a magical doctor if things go on like this!The salesman recruited by Domamu is so inefficient!

One by one, Mo Ao moved the books that Strange showed him from one stack to another. From the titles of the books, he had an overview of what he had learned during this time, and then lightly Leaning lightly on the pile of books, he sighed.

"Okay, since you want to learn so much." Mo Ao called out the world illustrated book, opened the title page, scanned along the table of contents, swiped his finger across a certain area, and an opening made of light was drawn on the top of the page. A tablet pops up.

"Alchemy is an advanced technology of alchemy, so you should learn from the basics. Here is an introduction to the operation principle of alchemy, and some relatively simple common alchemy formations. You can do some experiments you like according to the above. There are about 57 formations here, all of which are relatively simple, so here comes the key point, my request to you is to memorize them and learn to draw them with bare hands."

"Because you are a beginner, I won't set a time limit for drawing the formation. After you reach the standard, I will teach you the rest." Mo Ao closed the world illustrated book with a snap, and handed the tablet to Strange. inside.

"By the way, by the way, this thing is connected to the Internet, and it is effective within [-] kilometers of me. If you want mobile data, you have to come and tell me in advance." Mo Ao said to him with a smile. "Don't worry, no money will be charged."